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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Mutant Football Leauge: Dynasty Edition is out on 10/30/18. We can now proudly tell you that the Black Hole Zion song, 8-Bit Rage, is not only used in the game, but also the entrance/theme music for one of the teams. Our song will accompany the awesome new team, the Cracksumskull Jugulars, as they make their way out to the field and dominate the other teams! The folks at Digital Dreams entertainment were great to work with and have produced a super cool piece of gaming art. Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition is available for Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Mac/PC via Steam. Dig it!

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Broadcasting from our space station between Mars and Jupiter, we are
pleased to finally announce that Black Hole Zion will have a little bit
of music featured in the game, Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition.
More details to come, but the game launches on 10/30/18 and will be
available for Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Mac/PC via Steam.

We’re looking forward to playing! The folks at Mutant Football League are super cool and have worked hard on bringing an awesome version of this game to release. Excited to share more soon!

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Quite a while back, I (Mark) did the soundtrack for a cool physics puzzler game called Stunt Runner. There were a few development delays as the folks involved were not only preparing a game for release, but an entire new platform called Jump Gaming. Jump has been described by some as a Netflix or Spotify service for games in the sense that you aren't necessarily installing games to your computer and that they curate the content to offer what they feel are the best indie games available.

You can play Stunt Runner right now if you are a Jump subscriber. However, I also wanted to make the soundtrack available for those using Jump and also those that might not play games, but dig instrumental synth and game soundtracks. I'm really happy with how all of the music turned out. The release date is 6/26/18, and you can pre-order it right here if that's your thing. Also, Jump subscribers will get it a few days early as an added bonus.

I cut together a video for the first track, Let's Go!, and you can watch it right here:

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

This is kind of a midway point through The Great Repression where things are at some of their most bleak. It is when the protagonist, out of desperation, joins up with an infomercial personality that has legally changed his first name to Doctor. This person did so in an effort to add credibility to his products and services. He claims he can give viewers the ability to travel through time and space if they sign up for his program, pay a fee, and report to his lab. He then performs lobotomies and other experiments on them. There is a little more to it, but I'd rather someone take a bit of their meaning from the lyrics than have me explain everything from my own perspective. Either way, we are happy with how things turned out. Here's a direct link to the YouTube stream. We hope you dig it!

Friday, October 27, 2017

We are releasing a video for All-American Violation today. We wanted to put it out a bit sooner, but we delayed it a few times because we did not want it to be associated with any one particular political controversy. I decided that America in 2017 is probably not going to have a week go by without a major political controversy and that today was going to be the day regardless of what was in the news.

Yes, this song is political, but it shouldn't be attached to any one administration in particular. It refers to a general dissatisfaction for the political, financial, religious, and social systems in my country. This is a point in the album where anger and desperation are at their highest. You're trying to get out, but you are boxed in. I wrote this song with my brother, Jonathan, and he is playing on the recording of this song along with Ryan. Despite the anger of the song, we had a great time tracking guitars in the studio for this.

The video itself consists of a few propaganda pieces of American animation, and a few other things I wove in there to convey the message further. Between that and the lyrics on the album, you probably know most of what the song is about. However, I'm always ready to chat with folks about this stuff when they send emails, messages, etc...

Friday, August 18, 2017

We had a great album release thanks to many of you. For those that did not know, we tried to do something a bit different and live stream the album with a companion video while chatting on Facebook. It went well, and we had very few connection issues for those watching. We plan on doing something similar to that type of thing again in the future. It is nice to experiment.

It is quite nice hearing so much positive feedback from people about the new album. We really do like to talk, even if it isn't about ourselves (hah!), so feel free to keep reaching out via whatever channels you like. With that in mind, we want to do a bit more with our mailing list. You're thinking, "Wait, you have a mailing list?". Yes, we do. We've never sent anything out to anyone that's provided an email through Bandcamp or wherever, but we are going to change that soon. You can sign up here. Please know that while lots of people SAY that they won't be spamming you with a ton of stuff, we really mean it. We plan to use the mailing list for certain updates and sharing things that we don't post right away to other channels. We will also be recruiting some of you for a crowdsourcing kind of project in the future. Lots of fun stuff and we definitely won't sell your address or any of that king of garbage.

Also, we put together a little lyrics video for Trapped in the Center of an Unstable Loop (hey, there's another one of those "say that three times fast" titles that Mark seems to be fond of. There are a ton of lyrics and a lot going on during that song, so we thought this one would be a good candidate to try that kind of thing with. You can watch a YouTube embed below, or you can watch it via our Facebook page. Lots of folks say this, but if you can do the whole "like, comment, share" thing, it actually does help us out.